If after reading this letter, you feel that Seattle is unjustly upset with you, know this: We will not forgive you for screwing with us a second time, and we are holding you personally responsible for the fiasco that is happening in Sacramento right now.

So find solace in your retirement, Mr. Stern--you served your fat cat buddies faithfully while scraping as much of the limelight for yourself as possible; no easy feat even for a man as oily and slippery as yourself.

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."---LP Hartley

I'd like to tell you how I really feel but this isn't the Shack so suffice to say even casual fans of the NBA will rejoice from far and wide the day you are no longer commissioner. Oh, and you can flat out go to hell.